And now they're changing Nutella!

[VanillaSugar]

Nutella gets lighter and sweeter. Aka more milk powder and sugar

Won't be buying that again. Nor Terrys Chocolate Oranges. Nor Creme Eggs.

Profit before taste humppfffff.

[Squeegle]

Just for your info, I worked for HC, they are an extremely ethical company, only a very small amount of palm oil is used - as previous posters say -in biscuits etc. Their CEO is very active in ensuring the ethical provenance of all the ingredients. It is a good British company with high quality standards so why any posters are so keen to put it down and say it’s just like Cadbury’s I don’t know! Their Nutella style spread is pretty good I have to say (although rather pricey), and kids not overly keen on it (not enough sugar or oily enough !)

[maggienolia]

I've just discovered chocolate filled with Advocaat.
Lush

[pisacake]

yes it seems like an obvious thing to just not use the biscuit supplier that contains palm oil tbh

[ChardonnaysPrettySister]

I used pralines as a synonym for chocolates because I had too many chocolates in a sentence.

But TBH is easier just not buying anything at all if I have to check the ingredients for every single variety in the box.

Wouldn't it be easier if they didn't use any palm oil at all?

[pisacake]

Yes, Piscake and 01, the chocolate itself doesn't have it, but I'm buying and eating the whole thing, I can't separate the chocolate shell from the filling of the pralines, or other chocolates, so for me the box of chocs, as a product, has palm oil.

yeah but the pralines don't contain palm oil either. Some of the biscuit-type chocolates do. You just need to read the ingredients and maybe not buy a mixed box.

[ChardonnaysPrettySister]

It would be lovely if they did have one, Ravioli.
Do post if remember what it was.

[raviolidreaming]

ChardonnaysPrettySister I've not bought it in a while. I must be thinking of something else. Sorry. I'll come back if my brain works!

[ChardonnaysPrettySister]

Yes, Piscake and 01, the chocolate itself doesn't have it, but I'm buying and eating the whole thing, I can't separate the chocolate shell from the filling of the pralines, or other chocolates, so for me the box of chocs, as a product, has palm oil.

I understand it's not a lot, but it bothers me, certified or not.

This is one of the reasons I cook and bake from scratch. I want to avoid palm oil as much as possible.

[pisacake]

yeah pretty much all chocolate spread thats not super-pricey will contain palm oil.

[ChardonnaysPrettySister]

Which one, Ravioli?

I've looked it up online and I can't find one without palm oil.

[raviolidreaming]

Morrisons do an amazing crunchy chocolate and hazelnut spread. Nicer than Nutella and no palm oil.

[pisacake]

I don't think HC chocolate contains palm oil. However fillings/biscuits may do.

No palm oil here for example

www.hotelchocolat.com/uk/310375.html

or here

www.hotelchocolat.com/uk/praline-collection.html#start=2

It's different from the chocolate itself being made from palm oil.

It's obviously not 'the very best', but then the very best is more expensive.

[Incitatus]

Oh, yes and the HC that we bought did taste like oily crap.

[Incitatus]

All palm oil tastes like shit, regardless of whether it’s certified or not.

Some people can’t eat it because it causes nausea.

It is a cheap, nasty ingredient which has no place in a premium chocolate brand however it is used.

Do you work for the friggin’ Palm Oil Promotion Front or something?

[AgathaRaisonDetra]

Certified to kill an orangutan. So if you have a certificate, that makes it OK then?

[00100001]

And the palm oil they use is certified.


So what is the problem with them using it in some of their ingredients?

[00100001]

There still isn't any palm oil in the actual chocolate though.


I am taking wilful ignorance personally!


To say that HC chocolate is oily crap just Isn't true. The chocolate has no palm oil in it.

Some ingredients in the fillings of some of the chocolates have palm oil. Eg there is palm oil in the shortbread that is used inside a chocolate.

That's not the same thing!

[WomblingThree]

@00100001 do you have shares in them or something? You seem to be taking it rather personally!

[Incitatus]

www.hotelchocolat.com/uk/winter-puddings-sleekster.html#q=Chocolate&start=16

By, they do like their palm oil

[Incitatus]

www.hotelchocolat.com/uk/large-chocolate-box.html#q=Chocolate&start=11

More here

[Incitatus]

www.hotelchocolat.com/uk/chocolate-eton-mess.html#q=Eton%2Bmess%2Bselector&start=1

Look at the ingredient list.

[00100001]

Please can anyone point me to the Hotel Chocolat ingredients list that has palm oil in the actual chocolate?

[00100001]

Because the milk chocolate just doesn't contain palm oil...

[Rebeccaslicker]

I don't mind cheap chocolate. I like sodding milky bars.

But mondelez have ruined Cadbury.

I used to love Thorntons - Viennese truffles are the BEST - but HC pretty much killed them off so now you can just get packets of millionaire shortbread in the supermarket :(